Patriots All Across Nation Urged to Fight ‘Super-NAFTA’

Dave Ferriman of Economy in Crisis, a patriotic,anti-free trade outfit based inDublin, Ohio, told AMERICAN FREE PRESSJanuary 8 that it’s critically important for AFP readers to ring the phones off the hook in Congressto increase advance opposition to the growingTrans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).

This globalist pact is a “super-NAFTA” treaty that the United States Trade Representative is keeping close toits chest. As a result, legislators will not be able to read the TPP until it’s time for Congress to vote onthe biggest trade and banking pact ever.

He said a key thing to take into account about this broad pact is that it protects powerful bankinginterests, as well as being a trade pact that may supersede the North American Free Trade Agreement(NAFTA), if the three NAFTA parties—the U.S.,Canada and Mexico—were to all join the TPP.

If the U.S. joins the TPP—an existing entity that already has 11 member-nations—then any antitrustlaws passed by the U.S. against banks or reinstatementof the Glass-Steagall Act could be struckdown under the TPP. “Forced bailouts,” even ofbanks not on U.S. soil, could also become a reality.

“[Legislators] won’t have time to read it once it’s in front of them,” said Ferriman. “That’s why advanceopposition must be created.”

President Obama favors the TPP. The U.S. Trade Representative will only release it to Congress withObama’s approval, as Ferriman understands the situation.

Unfortunately for the U.S., these free trade dealsare lopsided in favor of cheap imports from countrieslike China. By eliminating levies at the border, the U.S. government is killing domestic industry,stifling production and still must collect revenuethrough taxing citizens and businesses.

By comparison, many other nations tax imports at a significantly higher rate than the U.S. does.This relieves their domestic economies of some of the tax burden by generating significant incomefrom tariffs.

The conclusion then is that these nations have store shelves consisting mainly of domestic-madegoods—while America, despite some improvements in domestic manufacturing for home markets,is still China’s main “outlet mall.”

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